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European Eel

About European Eel
The European Eel spend most of its life in freshwater. However, they lay their eggs in saltwater in this case the sargasso Sea. an area of the North Atlantic where seaweed is as a result of the ocean currents. Once they lay their eggs they die. The young when hatched start life as a transparent, leaf shaped creature which develops into an elongated, transparent eel. This eel drifts with the ocean currents until they reach a river estuary This takes about 3 years for the eel. By the time they reach the European waters they have become elvers, they are tiny replicas of their parents. Many of these are commercially netted as they run up river estuaries.

Those that are not caught travel through the night some leaving the water to travel overland to lakes unconnected to the river systerm.

Female eels are larger than the males. Larger in life when the urge comes to breed they head back to the Sargasso.

The eel is normally a yellow brown color, and changes to silver as they approach sexual maturity.

What is this animal's name?	European Eel
What class is this animal assigned to?	Anguillidae
What does this animal eat?
Where did this animal live?	Sargasso Sea area of North Atlantic